He scanned the letter, its words a collection of grievances he'd never voiced aloud. He, in the first person, had written to his brother. The younger version of himself, filled with hurt and feeling perpetually ignored. The letter still held its potency.

He felt a deep sense of anger, a feeling that clawed at him from the inside. He paced his office, a tight, controlled movement mirroring the fury churning inside. He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands in a display of intense frustration.

Emotion: outraged

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -1.96 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.32

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion outraged. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 outraged stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the outraged emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the outraged vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
C0.467
0.334
🤬0.327
aggravated0.323
0.312
Suppressed:
H-0.315
☺️-0.286
optimistic-0.278
adventurous-0.262
मुस्कुरा-0.260